Great Hills

A pastiche on baroque techniques, this delightfully varied work is ideal for amateur orchestras. It is a concertante written as a companion piece to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.4. Taking its title from the poem The South Country by Hilaire Belloc, Great Hills is inspired by the locality of Shipley, the connections are not only pastoral but historic, literary, and musical (the first movement is a dedication to a Stradivarius violin belonging to an ancestral family of the town). Premiered in May 2007 at the Shipley Arts Festival.

Forces or
Category

Solo violin, 2 solo flutes & string orchestra

Duration

12 minutes

Difficulty

Moderately difficult

Orchestration

solo violin, 2 solo fl, str

Cecilia McDowall (b.1951)

Educated at Edinburgh and London Universities, Cecilia McDowall has been described by the International Record Review as having a 'communicative gift that is very rare in modern music. An award-winning composer, McDowall is often inspired by extra-musical influences, and her choral writing combines rhythmic vitality with expressive lyricism. Her music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by leading choirs, among them Phoenix Chorale and the Choir of New College, Oxford, and is regularly programmed at prestigious festivals in Britain and
abroad.

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